Evil helps the wound

[genshou]

Blackguards have as many virtues as paladins have vices. The Blackguard may have some sense of honor that applies in a way, but he would never do it for the sake of good. Always would evil be part of the agenda, even if his original reason for helping her was just because he has some sort of code regarding respect for women. He would feel no qualms about turning her to the dark side, even if that was not his original intent.

Get creative and have fun! This is a really good idea.

 

[Storyteller01]

We do need more info, but it's a great starting point. He could be doing it to convert her, or simply because she reminds him of someone (he became evil after watching mom die in a simillar situation).

Then again, you could always go the route of Phantom of the Opera.

 

[Testament]

The Knights of Takhsis from Dragonlance have a code of chivalry even stronger than the Solamnic Knights. They're as evil as they get, but they're honourable about it. Maybe that's the deal here, and he's chosen to help the 'weak', helpless woman. Then he plans to take her with him and get slaughtering and avenging on the orcs.

I love Korimyr's scenario though, and that I can easily see happening. Nurture her anger over what happened, and smile as she unleashes a predatory rage and power on those filthy orcs who assaulted her.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Perhaps he wants a witness to his deeds, someone he can monologue to without worrying. He could enjoy confessing his sins to someone, and this woman is just the person to take in and tell every detail of his horrible plans. It could be because of some kind of self hatred and he wants someone else to hate him constantly, or it could be that he likes to watch the terror on her eyes as he slowly drives her insane with his tales. Or maybe he just likes to hear himself talk and he thinks only insane people talk to themselves, and he most certainly is not insane.

Or...

He needs an heir, and a willing wife. He wants to try and make her love him. He tries many things, shows her how much he cares, but she is only horrified by him. He doesn't understand why she won't grow to love him. Or perhaps he can hide his evil ways around her. He acts like a loving and good husband, all the time destroying and pillaging. Perhaps she's heard of him but doesn't know the evil warlord is her husband. They have a boy, and years pass, and then one day the PCs happen upon her household...

 

[genshou]

The Knights of Takhsis from Dragonlance have a code of chivalry even stronger than the Solamnic Knights. They're as evil as they get, but they're honourable about it. Maybe that's the deal here, and he's chosen to help the 'weak', helpless woman. Then he plans to take her with him and get slaughtering and avenging on the orcs.

I love Korimyr's scenario though, and that I can easily see happening. Nurture her anger over what happened, and smile as she unleashes a predatory rage and power on those filthy orcs who assaulted her.

At the very least, he's not going to try to stop her anger. Keep that and other similar considerations in mind.

 

[Cartigan Mrryl]

Blackguards aren't just evil, they're villainous. They cast down the temples of good gods, they conquer nations and enslave races, they destroy hope and beauty and kindness, and they suck others dry for their own power.

They don't kick puppies or shoot fish in barrels, and no self-respecting Blackguard touches orcish leftovers.

Blackguards can spread their own foul breed of "redemption" just like Paladins do-- and this girl probably has one hell of a rage burning in her, just waiting for a chance to be let out. Sure, he could probably finish her off, or take whatever he wants from whatever she has left, but that'd be like a twentieth level Paladin helping a kitten out of a tree when he could be casting remove disease on an infirmary full of children.

Or, he could teach the poor Druid to become stronger-- to seize what she wants and to hell with anyone who wants to take what's hers. He can nurture her hatred and her pain, and show her that the only thing that allowed those orcs to hurt her was her own weakness, her own uncertainty, her own morality.

The only question is whether he should punish those orcs himself-- severely and with great malice-- as a present to her, or if he should wait until she's healed and watch as she turns nature's power into a weapon against the entire tribe, eradicating her tormenters, their friends, their families, their women and children...

Or he could sympathize with her, maybe his family and he himself were ambushed by orcs and his family was cut down around him, then a Cleric of some dark god came and showed him the Way. He could try to do that with this girl also, try to convert her into a cleric/Druid of HIS god, then bring her back to destroy those orcs... like HE (^) said.

 

[Umbran]

I am reminded of a song by Tom Smith, entitled "Rocket Ride".

"...How many xenomorphs will change their face,
And then hunt us down for a thrill?
Give me a villain with style and grace,
And a little bit of fencing skill.

They used to be angular, sneering and bald,
If someone got killed even they were appalled,
They tried to marry the heroine, no thought of rape,
And they sure as hell knew how to wear a cape.

They never tortured, they never lied,
They'd honor a promise if it meant they died.
Let's find a villain with professional pride,
Come on with me, baby, on a rocket ride.
Come on with me, baby, on a rocket ride. "

 

[lukelightning]

Or imagine if a 15th level lawful good ninja halfling is trapped on a ferris wheel with a female chaotic evil 18th level oompa-loompa pirate and learns that love takes many forms?!?!?!? What do you think of that? Do you think it could happen? Doesn't this just blow your mind?!?!?!?! :\

 

[davidschwartznz]

I'm reminded on the Path of Ecstacy from the original Followers of Set splatbook (Old World of Darkness). This was a morality that was truly evil - it was a sin for a follower of this path to not indulge in selfish pleasure, it was a sin for a follower to not to lead the innocent into temptation, that sort of thing. However, the absolute number one sin against this twisted morality was "Destroying something beautiful". The worst kind of evil, the most insidious kind, is the kind that appears good at first glance. Obvious evil is juvenile.

 

[Bartmanhomer]

What if the blackguard happen to be a reedeemed villain? If would make the scenario a bit easier.